Gratidão!

Dear Família,
First I would like to explain that last p-day I went on a cooking frenzy. I first made pancakes for breakfast, fish for lunch, chicken and noodles for our lunch the next day, snickerdoodles for the ward family home evening and stove top kettle corn. Maybe I was just bored, but the temptation to cook overcame me.
We had the ward family home evening on Wednesday. We watched part of the Testaments, and then Elder Lindsey and I were in charge of the games. We taught the kids duck duck goose, but they had trouble pronouncing goose, so instead they´d just whack the persons head harder. No one was seriously injured. Everyone loved my snickerdoodles and the bishop´s wife now wants me to get married with a Brazilian so that we can combine our cultural flavors. I told her that I couldn´t think about that right now.
Our district meeting this week paid homage to Elder Dias who would soon be leaving us. We held a wailing in his honor.
The topic discussed in out district meeting was that of gratitude in our work. We talked a lot about the dangers of pride and how we have to remember the hand of the Lord in all our success.
After our district meeting, Elder Lindsey decided to try something new in our missionary work. We decided that after every lesson (successful or not) we would say a short prayer of gratitude, for the opportunity to teach that household. After we started to apply more gratitude in our work, the blessings started flooding in around us.
I don´t have the time to explain all the miracles that we´ve seen this week, but to share just a few:
We found a family from Paraguay that had previously talked with missionaries, but hadn´t had the opportunity to visit the church before.
A man stopped us in the store and asked us where we´re from. We taught his family and he and his wife came to church Sunday.
Tracting we found a couple that was attending church in São Paulo and hadn´t gotten baptized, because they need to get married.
The greatest miracle that we saw came on Sunday. A member stopped us and said that her sister in law wants to get baptized. We asked her if this was true and she said it was. Her friend, that was standing next to her, then said that she wanted to get baptized too. We marked the date for this coming Saturday.
The Lord blesses those that thank him!
Love,
Elder David Short